DeMar DeRozan can recall the training camps when there were nine or 10 new Toronto Raptors to meet, and much of the familiarity built the previous season had been washed away.

He counts his blessings for the way it is today.

For most of DeRozans early years in Toronto, each fall brought the daunting challenge of learning the tendencies of new teammates and creating new chemistry. The Raptors selected him ninth overall in the 2009 NBA draft, a 19-year-old swingman who had played just a single college season at USC. He opted to leave school early largely for what an NBA contract could do to ease the pain his mother suffered daily with lupus. The Raptors general manager at the time, Bryan Colangelo, compared his athleticism to that of renowned Raptor Vince Carter.

Hes got a chance to be special, Colangelo had said in DeRozans introductory press conference. But lets let him do it on his own time.

DeRozan watched dozens come and go during his first five years in Toronto, names such as Andrea Bargnani, Chris Bosh, Hedo Turkoglu, Jose Calderon, and Rudy Gay. One constant remained with DeRozan Amir Johnson, from Los Angeles just like him.

Together, they navigated the Raptors painstaking process of building a roster and eventually, a winning culture.Oh man, we had so many teammates over the years, I couldnt even count them, Johnson said. Yeah, weve become close; DeMar and I have definitely bonded. Were happy to see the growth of this team.

DeRozans first four years in Toronto were all losing seasons, but his average points a game swelled with each year, his game improved and his value deepened. Last season, he ranked 10th in the NBA with a career-best 22.7 points a game, helping lead the Raptors to a franchise-high 48-win season and their first playoff appearance since 2008. From there, the 6-foot-6 workhorse threw himself into the off-season, hiring a ball-handling specialist, pushing his conditioning to the limits back in California and doing everyday things with his left hand in the hopes it could strengthen his off-hand play on the court. Any little thing to help sustain the magic the Raptors created last season, a playoff magnetism that had sold-out crowds stoked and rollicking in the Air Canada Centre and another 10,000 watching outside, just to be near it.

Now, entering his sixth NBA season, 25-year-old DeRozan has arrived. If it wasnt obvious before, reminders came in last years all-star nod; via his 23.9 points a game in the playoffs; from how he combined with Kyle Lowry to create one the most electric backcourts in the NBA; or through DeRozans selection to Team USA this summer for the FIBA World Cup. Lowry re-signed in Toronto to keep the duo together; the other three starters remain, too; and sixth man Greivis Vasquez declared his undying love for the city and its franchise to remain a part of it.

I was here for the tough times and I think that put more hunger in me, DeRozan said, chatting this week in a corner of the Raptors practice facility. Thats what its always been for me. I was never in a perfect situation where everything was peaches and cream. I like to work from the dirt and make something out of it.

When Dwane Casey became head coach of the Raptors in 2011, he was inheriting a team that had gone 22-60 the year before, but he felt he had a special piece of the puzzle in DeRozan.

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Door County - Property stolen in Door County has been recovered in Green Bay, but two suspects in the crimes remain at-large, the Door County Sheriff's Department says.

The sheriff's department and Sturgeon Bay Police Department had "numerous" reports of break-ins to rental storage sheds. They would break into the sheds and replace the locks with their own. Similar crimes were discovered in Brown County over the summer. Sometimes items in the storage unit were rearranged, apparently so they would be easier to remove when the thieves returned later.

The thieves mostly took tools, camping gear and athletic equipment. Authorities didn't say exactly what was recovered or what led them to get search warrants in Green Bay.

The suspects are identified as Ricky Smithey and William Collman. The sheriff's department thinks they've left the Door County area. They're originally from Kentucky.

Smithey turns 26 on November 5. He's white, has brown hair and brown eyes, 5'5" tall and 140 pounds.

Collman is 45, white, with brown hair and a gray beard, brown eyes, 5'8" and 180 pounds.

Authorities don't know what they might be driving.

People are asked to check their rental storage lockers or sheds on private property, and ask anyone reporting a theft to be as detailed as possible when describing their stolen items.

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FROM the nearby highway, it is impossible to miss the impressive cluster of farm sheds on Andrew and Annette Cass' Paruna property.

The Cass family has invested heavily in farm infrastructure in the past 20 years, a move Mr Cass says has well and truly paid off.

Most sheds, including three bulk grain sheds, a large machinery shed and a chemical storage shed, have been built by Grant Sheds since 1998.

While the sheds are conveniently built near the family's house and close together, Mr Cass planned their location to allow trucks and large machinery plenty of room to manoeuvre.

"The sheds were built close to the homestead, keeping in mind that we didn't want the sheds to clutter close to the homestead," he said.

"It was important that we had a bit of distance between the homestead lifestyle and work.

"The sheds grew with the size of the farm. During the time we built the sheds we were obtaining more land, which meant more machinery, more grain storage and so on. The sheds were all built in response to a need at the time.

"The location of all the sheds in one cluster is good it's much easier than having machinery stored on other parts of the farm. It's also easier for contractors or machinery agents to come and service the machinery if it's all in one spot.

"We've also put rubble all around the sheds, and it's been levelled and rolled so that it's virtually all-weather. It makes it much easier for grain trucks, as they can turn easily and won't get bogged, plus it's good for the airbag scales."

Mr Cass said the grain sheds had revolutionised the way he marketed his grain. The three structures were built progressively, starting with a 12-metre by 36m 1000-tonne shed.

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A senior CSIRO bureaucrat has explained more details about a power-supply issue that has dogged its new multi-million dollar research ship, the RV Investigator.

Last month the ABC revealed the RV Investigator was unable to access shore power in Hobart and was having to generate power from the ship's engines while in dock.

The ship had to be moved from its home berth at the CSIRO's dock at Princes Wharf because residents in nearby Battery Point and Salamanca had complained about the noise the engines were making.

Dr Andrew Johnson, executive director of environment at the CSIRO, today told the Economics Legislation Committee the power issue stemmed from power source differences between Australia and Singapore, where the ship was built.

"Australia has a particular set of specifications for the way in which it supplies its power to all consumers, not just to those in the maritime industry," Dr Johnson said.

"We made very clear to the contractor about what the onshore power requirements were as part of our statement of functional specifications.

"Whilst the vessel was in the shipyard in Singapore there was a different set of power specifications there and we've been in active discussions with the contractor for some time now about ensuring the power supply that the vessel can use in an ongoing basis is compatible with Australian power conditions."

The contract to build the $120 million vessel was let to joint Australian and Canadian companies TeeKay Australia and RALion who then partnered with Singapore shipyard Sembawang Pte Ltd.

The ship arrived in Hobart 11 months behind schedule

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Paris (AFP) - Scientists said Wednesday they had unravelled the oldest DNA ever retrieved from a Homo sapiens bone, a feat that sheds light on modern humans' colonisation of the planet.

A femur found by chance on the banks of a west Siberian river in 2008 is that of a man who died around 45,000 years ago, they said.

Teased out of collagen in the ancient bone, the genome contains traces from Neanderthals -- a cousin species who lived in Eurasia alongside H. sapiens before mysteriously disappearing.

Previous research has found that Neanderthals and H. sapiens interbred, leaving a tiny Neanderthal imprint of just about two percent in humans today, except for Africans.

The discovery has a bearing on the so-called "Out of Africa" scenario: the theory that H. sapiens evolved in East Africa around 200,000 years ago and then ventured out of the continent.

Dating when Neanderthals and H. sapiens interbred would also indicate when H. sapiens embarked on a key phase of this trek -- the push out of Eurasia and into South and later Southeast Asia.

The new study, published in the journal Nature, was headed by Svante Paabo, a renowned geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, who has pioneered research into Neanderthals.

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The bone found at the Irtyush River, near the settlement of Ust'-Ishim, carries slightly more Neanderthal DNA than non-Africans today, the team found.

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